[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR.") Slat,—I was pleased
to see Mr. George Mackenzie's kind refer- ence in your issue of June 10th to my paper on_ " Prehistoric Cooking-Places." The interesting quotation which he has given at length from Mr. Osgood- Mackenzie's book was referred to iby me, and I also quoted a letter received from Mr. Rallerby Lowerison, whose grandmother had told him when a boy how they " heated- stones and' dropt them into the milk tub till the water boiled, to scour them." I am particularly anxious. to acquire further information as to the finding of burnt stone heaps in Scotland. If Mr. George Mackenzie, through the Northern Chronicle, would kindly arouse an. interest in the- subject, some. more examples of prehistoric hearths may come to light. The. fall account,, with diagrams of the discoveries of these cooking-places in Norfolk, will be published in the next Proceedings of' the Prehistoric Society of- East Anglia.—
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